falasta- vb. "to foam", participle falastala "foaming, surging" in Markirya
falastanë participle (?) "surging", falastanérovb. "was loud with surf" (MC:213, 220; this is "Qenya" - the participle "surging" is falastala in Tolkien's later Quenya)
Falastur masc. name, *"Shore-lord" (Appendix A)
fallënoun "foam" (PHAL/PHÁLAS)
falmanoun "(crested/foaming) wave" (PHAL/PHÁLAS), "a wave-crest, wave" (VT42:15), “foam wave” (PE17:127), “a breaker” (PE17:62), partitive pl. falmali “many waves” (PE17:73), allative falmalinnar "on the foaming waves" in Namárië (Nam, RGEO:67); the phrase an i falmalī (PE17:74) seems to be a paraphrase of this with an independent preposition instead of the allative ending -nna (see an #1). Compounded in Falmari, a name of the Teleri, and Mar-nu-Falmar, "Home/Land under Waves", a name of Númenor after the Downfall. (SA:falas)Falmari "wave-folk", a name of the Teleri (PM:386). – In earlier "Qenya", falma was glossed "foam" (LT1:253, cf. MC:213). Compare also the early "Qenya" words falmar "wave as it breaks" (LT1:253), pl. falmari "waves" (MC:216)
falmar, falmarin (falmarind- or simply falmarin- as in pl. falmarindi [or falmarini]) noun "sea-spirit, nymph" (PHAL/PHÁLAS)
fána, fánë (1) adj. "white" (Markirya - fánë as a sg. form in may be a misreading). Compare fanya.
fána (2) noun "cloud" (SPAN, VT46:15). Cf. fana.
fananoun term denoting the "veils" or "raiment" in which the Valar presented themselves to physical eyes, the bodies in which they were self-incarnated, usually in the shape of the bodies of Elves (and Men) (RGEO:74, PE17:173-180). According to PE17:26, fana may be said to mean “shape” with “added notion” of light and whiteness, “it is thus often used where we might use ‘a vision’ – of something beautiful or sublime”, yet with no connotation of “uncertainty or unreality”.